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Re:Ask HN: What's a good programming language to start with? by cpr on Thursday August 13, 2009 @10:04AM (#760774)
Why not try Squeak? It's a modern Smalltalk with a complete graphical interface, and learning it well will thoroughly warp your mind into the 100% object-oriented approach to computing. (A very useful warp. ;-)

It's freely available and runs on all major operating systems.

http://www.squeak.org/

And then if you get Peter Seibel's "Practical Common Lisp" book and learn Lisp, you'll be completely ruined for any "blub" language like Java or C++. But you'll be light-years ahead of the crowd...

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good programming language to start with? by cpr on Thursday August 13, 2009 @03:47PM (#761557)
Oh, and I should add that you'll be well-prepared for Ruby or Python, if you go this route.
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